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Before a standing room only crowd. Marshall and Davis resumed battle. The emphasis was on whether the ratifiers of the 14th amendment in 18 68 intended to prevent racial segregation in schools. After three days of intense exchanges, the judges of the Supreme Court took five months to deliberate and delivered their judgment on May 17th, 1954 that Monday was quite a judgment day for many reasons. Justice Robert Jackson came directly from the hospital at which he had been convalescing for a couple of months since a serious heart attack. Justice William Douglas was honored in his chambers with an award from the American Foot Health Association for his efforts to preserve 100 and 85 mile Chesapeake and Ohio canal towpath from being turned into a highway. The justices took their seat at the Supreme Court bench at noon. The courtroom was packed to capacity including all the Supreme Court's clerks and justice Jackson's doctor. 1st 119 attorneys were admitted to practice before the Supreme Court. The justices then read out the court's decisions of the day. Four decisions were rendered before the main item of business was reached at about 12 40 PM. Chief Justice Warren began to read his opinion for the court in case number one on that term. Docket Oliver Brown at all V Board of Education of Topeka Shawnee County, Kansas along with its companion cases from South Carolina, Virginia and Delaware. In his measured tones, Chief Justice Warren read out a unanimous judgment on behalf of the court in favor of Linda Brown and the other Children. He concluded that separate educational facilities are inherently unequal and violate the 14th amendment to the US Constitution which guarantees all citizens equal protection of the laws. Although the judgment carefully confined itself to education, it was a landmark victory for the NAACP and African Americans.